Condition code checking

jagadeeshkumar · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:13 am

Hello All,

I want to check the condition codes in a job which is as follows.

//STEP01 EXEC PGM=AAAA,COND=(0,LT),
...............
//STEP02 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=(0,NE)
..............
//STEP03 EXEC PGM=BBBBB,COND=(0,NE)
..................
//STEP05 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,COND=(4,LT,STEP03.G)

I want STEP05 to execute only if STEP03 ends with a return code of 4 or less. The above condition checking works fine if STEP03 runs fine.

However, when STEP03 itself is not executed because of return codes from STEP01 or STEP02, the condition code in STEP05 is not checked and STEP05 gets executed.

Can anyone suggest a way to resolve this?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 3:10 am

Hello,

Add the 0,NE to the STEP05 COND=.

jagadeeshkumar · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:32 am

Hi,

I changed the condition code in STEP05 as

//STEP05 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,COND=((4,LT,STEP03),(0,NE))

Now, STEP05 is not executed. The return code of the previous steps are

STEP1 : 0
STEP2 : 0
STEP3 : 4

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 7:01 am

Hello,

I believe you need to add the 0,NE for each of the 3 prior steps.

expat · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 12:46 pm

IF / THEN / ELSE allows you to test if a previous step has run or not, and you can then specify that if STEP03 has not processed, then do not process STEP05.